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All the time, and spurring him to the more attention, song, loud talk, fleering laughter, and the occasional popping of a cork, reached his ears from the interior of the house; and when the port watch was relieved at midnight, Huish and the captain appeared upon the quarter-deck with flushed faces and uneven steps, the former laden with bottles, the latter with two tin mugs.
Since that is so, help me of your charity! to understand myself." "Then understand yourself for an impudent, fleering coxcomb," she flung at him, and turned to leave him. "That is not explanation," said Mr. Caryll thoughtfully. "It is mere abuse." "What else do you deserve?" she asked him over her shoulder. "That you should have dared!" she withered him.
"You have not answered my question," she reminded him. "Nor you mine," said he. "I asked you am I not yet forgiven." "Forgiven what?" "For being born an impudent, fleering coxcomb twas that you called me, I think." She flushed deeply. "If you would win forgiveness, you should not remind me of the offence," she answered low. "Nay," he rejoined, "that is to confound forgiveness with forgetfulness.
I sat listening; and it came in my mind that I had scarce ever heard him address three serious words to any woman, but he was always drolling and fleering and making a private mock of them, and yet brought to that business a remarkable degree of energy and interest. "What do ye want?" says he.
The play was one of those fleering comedies which render contemptible for the time all honest and earnest intention, and which surely are a whiff from the bottomless pit itself.
But Lo, after this horrid Sound, there followed a sight of Devils more horrid; for there appear'd an innumerable multitude of Devils, in ugly frightful shapes; who saluted him in a fleering manner and said: 'Other Men who serve us, do not come to our Habitation till after Death; but thou art pleased to Honour our Company so much, as that thou wouldst not, like others wait for Death; but hast alive delivered both Body and Soul unto us: Thou has done this, that thou mayst receive the greater Reward from us: Thou shalt then be abundantly rewarded as thou hast deserv'd.
The jester bowed low, his gay fantastic cap in hand, all his fleering, mocking manner changed to a gentle deference. "Josian, my dear," he said, "this is the young man of whom I sent you word. He has traveled many weary miles to see and speak with Archiater's daughter."
Seductive Jacobin figments, which he had often refuted at the Speculative, swam up in his mind and startled him as with voices: and he seemed to himself to walk accompanied by an almost tangible presence of new beliefs and duties. On the named morning he was at the place of execution. He saw the fleering rabble, the flinching wretch produced.
Down she went with displeasure. I could not help it. I was quite tired with so many attempts, all to the same purpose. I am amazed that they are not! So little variation! and no concession on either side! I will go down and deposit this; for Betty has seen I have been writing. The saucy creature took a napkin, and dipt it in water, and with a fleering air, here, Miss; holding the wet corner to me.
But no, for the sake of that religion of hers, for the sake of what some priest told her, she had stuck to what had turned out to be a useless lie, to save a dead man's name. Ruth stood there reaching out her hands to him. But he turned upon her with a look of savage, fleering contempt; a look that stunned the girl as a blow in the face would have done.
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